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this is obama's convention. i do think it has been effective tort democrats they are only giving their answer to the charge we have been heard again and again speakers in tam tampa. president obama gaf you didn't build t his point was everybody we built this together any successful person is successful because it's in the context of opportunity. republicans hammered him on that. i think what we're hearing from the first lady, from mayor castro. we're going to hear it from bill clinton they're answer. we believe in success, we also believe in prosperity, we are in favor of everybody getting rich but rerve has to together krrchght someone that was in the first lady's speech, if we are lucky and successful by hard work -- >> all these have been out there have been more owe fecttive than president obama often is in making this case. i think he often falls into language that sets him up for this character that really he is hostile to free enterprise, not in favor of success or people having the opportunity to get ric
this is obama's convention. i do think it has been effective tort democrats they are only giving their answer to the charge we have been heard again and again speakers in tam tampa. president obama gaf you didn't build t his point was everybody we built this together any successful person is successful because it's in the context of opportunity. republicans hammered him on that. i think what we're hearing from the first lady, from mayor castro. we're going to hear it from bill clinton they're...
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the michelle obama was excellent. i think if you take the two conventions, you look at a party, you have doubts about the republicans now. and the republican convention looks worse in retrospect because i'd say that because they did not champion and make a case for all the policies that have been seriously attacked here. given a week i would give a slight advantage to the democrats. >> mark. >> the democrats won desitessively the first two nights and the third night as well. disaifd's right the republicans are going to pay a price for a content-free convention. basically a content-free. this was not content-free. >> ifill: back to washington richard norton smith, without it falling on how, how did it look. >> a confetti free assessment. i would agree with david. i don't think we saw anything new or revealing about the president tonight but what we did see revealed tonight was the democratic strategy. up until now the assumption has been that this is an election, a referendum upon the performance of the incumbent presi
the michelle obama was excellent. i think if you take the two conventions, you look at a party, you have doubts about the republicans now. and the republican convention looks worse in retrospect because i'd say that because they did not champion and make a case for all the policies that have been seriously attacked here. given a week i would give a slight advantage to the democrats. >> mark. >> the democrats won desitessively the first two nights and the third night as well....
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>> in fact, the obama campaign said that this week. when you were saying it lost a week, in fact, they were sort of suggesting that in the national polls it had tightened to the point where it was before the convention. if you think about that, and lost a month. more than a month. so they were acknowledging that. at least. i thought that was very interesting that they were trying to say that their argument is that mitt romney does not have enough time to make up the gap in the battleground states that jeff is talking about. and that is -- it sounds like a hail mary wish on their part. >> four out of five days in ohio he's not done that much campaigning for a long time. this is governor romney. he's waking up there on saturday. and he is -- really fighting for this. so i think there may be enough time. even though people are voting as we speak, the crowds and other things, the enthusiasm is there for -- on both. >> and shows up in the polls. the enthusiasm. >> and are we going to stay right where we are? well, i think actually in the la
>> in fact, the obama campaign said that this week. when you were saying it lost a week, in fact, they were sort of suggesting that in the national polls it had tightened to the point where it was before the convention. if you think about that, and lost a month. more than a month. so they were acknowledging that. at least. i thought that was very interesting that they were trying to say that their argument is that mitt romney does not have enough time to make up the gap in the...
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obama spoke elkently about it. if there's a greater responsibility we have, to bring solvency again to this government and this nation, i don't know what it is. >> ifill: by the way, the president we're told was watching this speech tonight at the white house with the daughters. no dramatic reveal at the end. now to ray suarez on the floor where all that red meat landed. >> you know, gwen, they gaveled this thing open in a half empty hall. by the time the first lady walked on to the stage, there wasn't room for another body in this arena but there was one funny moment before the speech began. the marshals moved throughout the aisles handing out "we love michelle" signs when the house lights were down and they were showing the biographical video. and as it moved to its finale, the assumption was that the next person out on the stage was going to be the first lady herself. so when the final frame faded to black, a woman walked out on stage, thousands of people leapt to their feet, and inhaled as it to begin shouting,
obama spoke elkently about it. if there's a greater responsibility we have, to bring solvency again to this government and this nation, i don't know what it is. >> ifill: by the way, the president we're told was watching this speech tonight at the white house with the daughters. no dramatic reveal at the end. now to ray suarez on the floor where all that red meat landed. >> you know, gwen, they gaveled this thing open in a half empty hall. by the time the first lady walked on to the...
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figure. >> it is crucial to understanding barack obama. that is why i did this. he is not just the first african-american president. in many ways, he is the first global american president with a family coming from kenya, living in indonesia, how that influenced and shake him. >> raise issues is something he has been very reluctant to talk about. >> he is biracial. he is half from white and half black. you are right, he has been somewhat reluctant to focus on race as an issue, and because he sees himself -- personally, he had to go black to find satisfaction in his life. there is a letter where he describes various of his friends finding different niches. for me to understand myself, i had to embrace it all. >> he describes this book as a search for identity in home. do you feel he has found those? or is he still searching? >> i think all of us are still searching to some degree, but in important ways, he did find himself. bill clinton sort of went past the contradictions and troubles of his life and he is incredibly successful moving forw
figure. >> it is crucial to understanding barack obama. that is why i did this. he is not just the first african-american president. in many ways, he is the first global american president with a family coming from kenya, living in indonesia, how that influenced and shake him. >> raise issues is something he has been very reluctant to talk about. >> he is biracial. he is half from white and half black. you are right, he has been somewhat reluctant to focus on race as an issue,...
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obama 250,000. romney zero. [ applause ] now, the agreement the administration made with the management to double car mileage that was a good deal, too, it will cut your gas prices in half. your gas bill. no matter what the price is, if you double mileage of your car your bill will be half what it would have been. make it more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions and according to several analyses over the next 20 years it will bring us another half a billion good new jobs in to the american economy. the president's energy st
obama 250,000. romney zero. [ applause ] now, the agreement the administration made with the management to double car mileage that was a good deal, too, it will cut your gas prices in half. your gas bill. no matter what the price is, if you double mileage of your car your bill will be half what it would have been. make it more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions and according to several analyses over the next 20 years it will bring us another half a billion good new jobs in to the...
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gwen: i want to get back to the fire obama part. we're here in charlotte to watch the democrats but i was cure ow, humanizing part which he and ann romney seemed to some way resist doing too much of, so they got others to do it for them. and then there was emphasis on the convention floor, diversity of voices, especially latino voices. mr. romney is losing to barack obama among them and it was a big focus on women voters. so did they break threw on those fronts? >> i think they did. not on the african-american front. i think it's possible they did on the women front, which was the most conspicuous focus. white women were the audience they were trying to talk to here. hispanics to a lesser degree. they can't be moved as much -- they're not locked in as much as african-americans are. gwen: seemed more like they were talking about the future of his panics in the party rather then the president. >> exactly. i agree with jeff. i think there were moments especially in romney's acceptance speech when he showed emotion, he talked about fami
gwen: i want to get back to the fire obama part. we're here in charlotte to watch the democrats but i was cure ow, humanizing part which he and ann romney seemed to some way resist doing too much of, so they got others to do it for them. and then there was emphasis on the convention floor, diversity of voices, especially latino voices. mr. romney is losing to barack obama among them and it was a big focus on women voters. so did they break threw on those fronts? >> i think they did. not...
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no, we have barack obama. >> in 2008, clinton called obama's claims to oppose the iraq war a fairy tale. >> this question is about which candidate is most likely to return us to full employment. >> in his recent ads, the former president heralded the current one as the champion. good bill clinton appealed to white working-class voters much better than obama did. he cannot win him this election, but he can certainly help. give when bill clinton takes the stage behind me, it will be 20 years to the day since he except in his party's nomination as a presidential candidate in 1992, and since then, he has been a leader of the party, and he has a very big mission tonight. joining me to discuss what clinton needs to do for obama is bill richardson, who worked in the white house. he was the energy secretary under clinton. what does he need to do to persuade people a rock obama can carry on the legacy bill clinton will for the country? >> bill clinton is a symbol of pro-growth democrats. he balanced the budget. he created millions of jobs, technology jobs, green energy. good what he is saying is
no, we have barack obama. >> in 2008, clinton called obama's claims to oppose the iraq war a fairy tale. >> this question is about which candidate is most likely to return us to full employment. >> in his recent ads, the former president heralded the current one as the champion. good bill clinton appealed to white working-class voters much better than obama did. he cannot win him this election, but he can certainly help. give when bill clinton takes the stage behind me, it...
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>> well, i am supporting president obama so you know what my thoughts are. i think that everything about a person's record is relevant to service as president. what is the job of the next president? the job of the next president is to accelerate the recovery, get us back to full employment, get income growth growing in america again. and fully implement the health care law so we bring our costs down, in line with our competitors, as well as increase coverage. create a new energy economy that will generate millions of jobs. i think if you look at their positions on the issues and the actions they have taken previously, president obama is much more likely to produce those results than governor romney is. that is what i think the focus should be on. who is more likely to bring us back to full employment and to broaden its prosperity? in general, the you believe we have to grow together and that government has a role to play in that or should we weaken government, pretend it is the enemy, and say you're on your own? the latter is the philosophy of the modern rep
>> well, i am supporting president obama so you know what my thoughts are. i think that everything about a person's record is relevant to service as president. what is the job of the next president? the job of the next president is to accelerate the recovery, get us back to full employment, get income growth growing in america again. and fully implement the health care law so we bring our costs down, in line with our competitors, as well as increase coverage. create a new energy economy...
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obama had a little humility on him. and clinton came in to chat and then afterward they went into the briefing room together. and i remember thinking, oh, man, clinton is going to eat his lunch in here. this is just -- that's where he excelled and did so well. and then sure enough, obama did give him the podium. it was almost like a big fat early christmas present. >> before clinton comes in that afternoon, president obama had in a series of advisors from the reagan era and he was asking them, what did reagan do when he faced adversity? how much of that did he show the public? here you have president obama reaching back to the reagan era looking for advice. this is the other thing about these presidents, they all study each other, they read each other's biographies. >> obama started out so disdainful of clinton, in what he thought was kind of a small-bull -- gwen: and then he found out -- >> this guy knows something. >> you could argue what cristi said earlier, the counterterrorism policies and foreign policy. he's not
obama had a little humility on him. and clinton came in to chat and then afterward they went into the briefing room together. and i remember thinking, oh, man, clinton is going to eat his lunch in here. this is just -- that's where he excelled and did so well. and then sure enough, obama did give him the podium. it was almost like a big fat early christmas present. >> before clinton comes in that afternoon, president obama had in a series of advisors from the reagan era and he was asking...
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>> it -- >> his base didn't like the fact that barack obama is the sitting president. so they're already pretty much there. we've had one piece of data on this so far, gallup came out with a poll, six in 10 people say this will not affect their decision at all. to the extent that there's any problem for the president -- >> what about evangelicals? >> evangelicals are very much against the president and the fact he's in the white house is a great turnout operation for the republicans. but whether -- a tiny little erosion, very tiny is among independents. 23% in this gallup poll said they would be less likely to vote for the president because of the decision. 11% said more likely. but that's a very small amount. and we are at the red hot moment here of this. the question is whether this continues on. if it's going to continue to be an issue, mitt romney is going to have to push it and there's no indication that he is going to push it at all. gwen: mitt romney not only doesn't want to push it but he also has gone even farther to the right, i guess, on civil unions. than h
>> it -- >> his base didn't like the fact that barack obama is the sitting president. so they're already pretty much there. we've had one piece of data on this so far, gallup came out with a poll, six in 10 people say this will not affect their decision at all. to the extent that there's any problem for the president -- >> what about evangelicals? >> evangelicals are very much against the president and the fact he's in the white house is a great turnout operation for the...
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, the governing obama and the campaigning obama this is the obama you want to see in a campaign and i think the advisors now have a way that david -- who is so precise would just drive thisthing, you know, day after day. >> rose: the campaigning obama. >> yes, the campaigning obama, fairness, all the way through the election it is a winning strategy. >> rose: you know that people that working with their hands and labor, the value of labor, what do they want? what is is the deciding issue for the >> i do think this idea will work, responsibility and fairness. i don't want to, i don't want a handout, i want a handp. i want sort of a level playing field. i mean people know the rules are rigged, whether it is campaign finance, whether it is k street and goezero to, as someone said the well-heeled and the well connected. people know something is basically wrong in america, that hard work doesn't pay and they are scared about their kids, and their grandkids futures and they have a right to be. interesting doris, lyndon johnson undersod that clearly and also bobby kennedy understood that, bo
, the governing obama and the campaigning obama this is the obama you want to see in a campaign and i think the advisors now have a way that david -- who is so precise would just drive thisthing, you know, day after day. >> rose: the campaigning obama. >> yes, the campaigning obama, fairness, all the way through the election it is a winning strategy. >> rose: you know that people that working with their hands and labor, the value of labor, what do they want? what is is the...
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said that michelle obama as a campaigner was more like bill clinton and barack obama was more like hillary clinton. >> that's interesting. she writes in that book that michelle wants the bigness. she wants not to be just politics as usual. there are a lot of people in every campaign, including the obama campaign, that are skilled in politics and they revert to that form. rose: what do you think about this new book by robert kagen about american decline-- or lack of? >> i'm... i'm with bob on... in general about ameran decline. i do not think we're in decline. the cultural d.n.a. of the country is still very strong. the young people very impressive young people. if you look at the social indicators that went bad in the '60s, '70s, and' 80s, they're all heading in the right direction. teenage pregnancy is down. teenage soodz is down. domestic violence is down. crime is down. the divorce rates foreople unde30 a lower than people over 30 after the same years of marriage. incredibly wholesome generation. my joke is they'll have the biggest mid-life crisis in human history in about ten years. >>
said that michelle obama as a campaigner was more like bill clinton and barack obama was more like hillary clinton. >> that's interesting. she writes in that book that michelle wants the bigness. she wants not to be just politics as usual. there are a lot of people in every campaign, including the obama campaign, that are skilled in politics and they revert to that form. rose: what do you think about this new book by robert kagen about american decline-- or lack of? >> i'm... i'm...
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part of what obama has done successful any and the obama campaign has done successfully is they have created this story that says he is only going to be looking after the rich he people in the white house. >> he doesn't understand because of his life experiences. >> he has to convince people he will bet the main street economy going for everybody, small business, entrepreneur ship and to get there he has to show the motive, he gets the fact it is the small businesses that people rely on, a lot of the employment and be their champion every single day and he has to plan to do it, he doesn' doesn't need te 19-point economic plan but i know how to do and he need a few bumper sticker issues lie the old rick santorum form issue amount manufacturing jobs and things like that so when the romney guy is arguing with the obama person and the undecided voter they both have some ammo to persuade the undecided voter in the economy that's why they need to get on jobs and off medicare. >> rose: are there fewer undecided in this election than most elections? >> the data seems to indicate that there a
part of what obama has done successful any and the obama campaign has done successfully is they have created this story that says he is only going to be looking after the rich he people in the white house. >> he doesn't understand because of his life experiences. >> he has to convince people he will bet the main street economy going for everybody, small business, entrepreneur ship and to get there he has to show the motive, he gets the fact it is the small businesses that people...
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. >> i think president obama has been much better of late, but understand that we come from this from a little different position. stan and i, this is the greatest problem the united states is facing is what do we do about the middle class? >> rose: america in afghanistan, and american politics when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia and news and information services worldwide. >> from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: dexter filkins of the new yorker magazine is here, this week's issue called after america, he asks this question, will civil war hit afghanistan when the u.s. leaves? he reports on fears that an american presence is the only fact of keeping the fragile country out of the hands of the warlords and taliban. >> the 2014 exit many afghans are preparing for the conflict that may follow. >> i am pleased to have dexter filkins back at this table. so here it is. the cover of the new yorker magazine. after america, when the s
. >> i think president obama has been much better of late, but understand that we come from this from a little different position. stan and i, this is the greatest problem the united states is facing is what do we do about the middle class? >> rose: america in afghanistan, and american politics when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia and news...
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president obama fights to confident his economic record. many americans remain concerned about mitt romney's private sector background. governor romney recently wrapped up his seven-day trip overseas where he tried to reflect his foreign policy credentials. joining me now from washington, chuck todd. he is the chief white house correspondent for nbc news, and host of "the daily rundown" on msnbc, for all of those reasons and more, i am pleased to have him back on this program. welcome. >> thank you, their. >> rose: what do we read on these polls from three states on the impact of negative campaigns, negative commercials, of how they are succeeding in defining each other, especially the president defining mitt romney is it. >> right. well, even before we had these polls, there was a sense-- you talked to both campaigns and just sort of a lot of times it's what campaigns say and what they don't say that can tell you a lot. you know, you keep hearing out of the romney campaign, charlie, that there's going to be time to introduce mitt romney to
president obama fights to confident his economic record. many americans remain concerned about mitt romney's private sector background. governor romney recently wrapped up his seven-day trip overseas where he tried to reflect his foreign policy credentials. joining me now from washington, chuck todd. he is the chief white house correspondent for nbc news, and host of "the daily rundown" on msnbc, for all of those reasons and more, i am pleased to have him back on this program....
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the obama campaign is extraordinarily skillful. i didn't cover the carter campaign but i would bet you that the obama campaign is more skillful than the carter campaign was at going, at going hard and defining romney. and in a lot of these battleground states particularly the industrial midwest romney is a wall street figure at a time of populism and anger at wall street, they will hammer that home. they have cards to play on that that they are holding back. but romney, as maggie said at the beginning, romney has to do almost everything right and the people around them. they have to have good luck this thing with congressman aiken is bad luck. they have to have good luck the rest of the way to get back to talking about the economy. you know, we said months ago, every day take out your calendar at the end of the day and right down was this a day that we talked about, where the die lock was about the obama economic record or about anything else. and most of the summer there have been very few days this sum wrer it has been, the debat
the obama campaign is extraordinarily skillful. i didn't cover the carter campaign but i would bet you that the obama campaign is more skillful than the carter campaign was at going, at going hard and defining romney. and in a lot of these battleground states particularly the industrial midwest romney is a wall street figure at a time of populism and anger at wall street, they will hammer that home. they have cards to play on that that they are holding back. but romney, as maggie said at the...
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this is obama, this is president obama and they're really disappointed. is >>> in 2008, i voted for barack obama. >>> he was new. he had new ideas. >>> i think that now we've given obama a fair chance. and i don't think he's able to do what we need him to do. >>> the president is doing a mediocre job, and the economy in my opinion is still the same as it was four years ago. >>> what's effective about that is that what governor romney has to do is persuade people who voted for president obama that they shouldn't vote for him again. if the attack is strong on his competence or strong on some facet of his leadership, the danger is people hunker down and defend their original vote. this situates the voter where the voter is right now, it says, "we license you to reject the incumbent." it's an ad that says, "let's make this a referendum. >> what about the pro-obama ad? what's the most effective ad they've run that is believable? >> i think the most effective ad that they have is on the air right now. it's capturing a small segment of the statement that governo
this is obama, this is president obama and they're really disappointed. is >>> in 2008, i voted for barack obama. >>> he was new. he had new ideas. >>> i think that now we've given obama a fair chance. and i don't think he's able to do what we need him to do. >>> the president is doing a mediocre job, and the economy in my opinion is still the same as it was four years ago. >>> what's effective about that is that what governor romney has to do is...
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i vote for obama? and-- and that is still a question for me. if i had to vote tomorrow, i'd probably vote for my mom. >> in 2008, my wife and i, we knocked on doors for president obama. she may be knocking on doors but i won't be walking those doors with her. i'm definitely not at that place. >> warner: so are you saying you remain undecided? >> i'm married. ( laughter ) and i just make big decisions in my life in conjunction with discussions with my wife. and so i'm afraid at this point i have to say that i'm still undecide. >> warner: all this to say in pursuit of undecided voters, the two candidates still have more persuading to do. >> woodruff: and with us once again, as they've been every night for two weeks-- in tampa and in charlotte-- are shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. gentlemen. i promise not to talk about your-- the circles under your eyes if you don't talk about the circles under mine. so these undecide motorth voters
i vote for obama? and-- and that is still a question for me. if i had to vote tomorrow, i'd probably vote for my mom. >> in 2008, my wife and i, we knocked on doors for president obama. she may be knocking on doors but i won't be walking those doors with her. i'm definitely not at that place. >> warner: so are you saying you remain undecided? >> i'm married. ( laughter ) and i just make big decisions in my life in conjunction with discussions with my wife. and so i'm afraid at...
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and you hear president obama talk about that in the campaign trail. these are the final days, of my final campaign. you begin to look ahead not to, every first term president wants the same thing, a second term. every second term president is thinking about one thing, and that's their legacy. what are they going to leave behind when they are done, what will history say about them? so the minute you've won that second term, instead of relief, i think you begin to start thinking about the judge that will be even harsher than the voters, come four years hence. and you realize that the clock is ticking so fast. somebody told me yesterday that a second term president has fourteen good months at the beginning of his term. and fourteen good months at the end, and the middle is a mush. and i have to figure out how to use that to achieve something that's meaningful. >> i've been struck recently, in the last four or five presidential campaigns, how it's become kind of de rigueur standard to promise the voters who you are running for the first time what you will
and you hear president obama talk about that in the campaign trail. these are the final days, of my final campaign. you begin to look ahead not to, every first term president wants the same thing, a second term. every second term president is thinking about one thing, and that's their legacy. what are they going to leave behind when they are done, what will history say about them? so the minute you've won that second term, instead of relief, i think you begin to start thinking about the judge...
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president obama waited until 30 minute into the debate to first talk about a voter. mitt romney was talking about his five sons. he talked about ann romney being on the trail. there were a lot of little moments in the debate where he was clearly trying to bring out the more human side to appeal to voters, womens, independents, people who you say may have seen him as a little stiff. >> woodruff: is it too early to ask both of you how you think the campaigns sense this debate is going to change anything going forward in the days to come, ari? >> just hearing from the romney campaign it sound like they got what they wanted to out of tonight. they, obviously, have work to do. they're behind in the polls. they need to make up a lot of ground. but i don't think anybody scored a lethal blow tonight. i don't think anyone made a huge gaffe tonight. but from the perspective of the romney campaign they feel like they accomplished what they needed to do. >> ifill: scott, how many eggs did the obama campaign put in this basket? >> negotiate the obama campaign was really just tryi
president obama waited until 30 minute into the debate to first talk about a voter. mitt romney was talking about his five sons. he talked about ann romney being on the trail. there were a lot of little moments in the debate where he was clearly trying to bring out the more human side to appeal to voters, womens, independents, people who you say may have seen him as a little stiff. >> woodruff: is it too early to ask both of you how you think the campaigns sense this debate is going to...
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obama's record on the economy. to hear the republican perspective, we went to former minnesota governor tim pawlenty -- a one-time romney opponent who now serves as national co- chair for the romney campaign. governor tim pawlenty, thank you for talking with us. >> it's good to be with you, judy, thanks for having me. rough rough let me ask you first about the economy. president obama, former president bill clinton whom i talked to two days ago say that despite the weak jobs numbers from last month that the underpinnings of this economy and r strong and that this is an economy that's eventually on the way to full recovery. how do you and governor romney see it? >> well, we can set aside the partisan spin and look at the numbers, judy. you have 40 months of above 8% unemployment. you have 23 million-- let me repeat that-- 23 million americans unemployed, underemployed, or have given up looking for work and those numbers are worse in many other categories. so to look at that and to say that we're on the road to recov
obama's record on the economy. to hear the republican perspective, we went to former minnesota governor tim pawlenty -- a one-time romney opponent who now serves as national co- chair for the romney campaign. governor tim pawlenty, thank you for talking with us. >> it's good to be with you, judy, thanks for having me. rough rough let me ask you first about the economy. president obama, former president bill clinton whom i talked to two days ago say that despite the weak jobs numbers from...
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you've got barack obama and mitt romney who are going to -- are facing off each other this election, and both of them seem to not know that the word "poor" is in their political vocabulary. >> well, we have to say about barack obama, he gets elected. and when they go for having health insurance for our whole country, they added 16 million people to medicaid. that's phenomenal. >> under the affordable -- >> under the affordable care act -- >> 16 million -- >> 16 million people, 18 to 64 year olds who had been completely left out of medicaid from the time it was enacted in 1965. and that had never been fixed. so if you look at the 45 to 50 million people who didn't have healthcare, a big chunk of them were lower income adults. we added children up to the age of 18. and then in the stimulus legislation, in the recovery act, the president put in there, probably 30% of the money was about low-income people, was helping low-income people. so, his record is good. >> so it's not as if nothing has been done since you and i were in our early 30s, right? >> that is absolutely correct -- >> i me
you've got barack obama and mitt romney who are going to -- are facing off each other this election, and both of them seem to not know that the word "poor" is in their political vocabulary. >> well, we have to say about barack obama, he gets elected. and when they go for having health insurance for our whole country, they added 16 million people to medicaid. that's phenomenal. >> under the affordable -- >> under the affordable care act -- >> 16 million --...
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on the part of president obama? >> i in draw here on my experience serving the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter, you could tell carter really didn't like the idea that he had to go through all of this mess of politics, he liked making the decision, he liked saying yes this is what you do about energy and should do this about the b 1 bomber. >> rose: what should we do about who plays ten miss on the tennis court. >> all of this crap of having richard russell and the counterpart on the baseball game he could barely reveal his impatience there is something similar with barack obama. >> in fact the story is told carter l la late in the term trd to make friends with journalists and had a number of them to dinner at the white house and so, hey, all right, mr. president, you know, did you enjoy the dinners, yes, anyone there you would like to see again. >> no. >> okay. so talk about these historians coming to the white house with the president obama. about the way he is. >> the way he is is fascinating to
on the part of president obama? >> i in draw here on my experience serving the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter, you could tell carter really didn't like the idea that he had to go through all of this mess of politics, he liked making the decision, he liked saying yes this is what you do about energy and should do this about the b 1 bomber. >> rose: what should we do about who plays ten miss on the tennis court. >> all of this crap of having richard russell...
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obama with saving their industry. >> with the help of president obama saving the big three. if we had let chrysler, chevrolet and gm go down, there would not be an international union, so he did save our jobs. >> suarez: that's the message the president took on the labor day campaign trail to ohio, where he reminded autoworkers of mitt romney's opposition to the g.m. and chrysler bailouts. >> when auto industry was flat lining, their play book was to let it go bankrupt. you would have been benched for good. that's not a good plan. more than one million people would have lost their jobs. for mid west it would have been another great depressions. >> suarez: workers in charlotte will hear from the president thursday night, when he officially accepts the democratic nomination for a second term. >> woodruff: we look now at the state of organized labor with the leaders of three unions. mary kay henry is president of the service employees international union. jim hoffa is president of the international brotherhood of teamsters. and lee saunders is president of the american federati
obama with saving their industry. >> with the help of president obama saving the big three. if we had let chrysler, chevrolet and gm go down, there would not be an international union, so he did save our jobs. >> suarez: that's the message the president took on the labor day campaign trail to ohio, where he reminded autoworkers of mitt romney's opposition to the g.m. and chrysler bailouts. >> when auto industry was flat lining, their play book was to let it go bankrupt. you...
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so barack obama likes to campaign against congress. when he's locked in this very tight battle with mitt romney when the two of them are just a few points apart it's much easier to campaign against someone with a 10 or 12% approval rating. >> ifill: he said let's agree on what we agree on. why isn't that reasonable why won't that work? >> nobody wants to take these votes in an election year where they have to accomplish something. it's much easier to put their stamp on. the republicans will come out with a counterproposal in the house. >> think about what he said, gwen. he said this is my position. it's also the republicans' position. so why can't they compromise with me on this? i think the republicans will say what he wants them to do is cave on tax cuts for all and not compromise. >> ifill: the other thing the republicans seem to be doing is they're about their own definitions right now too. they're talking about the president's zombie economy which the jobless numbers help the poor. >> they bring it back to jobs. and the sense that
so barack obama likes to campaign against congress. when he's locked in this very tight battle with mitt romney when the two of them are just a few points apart it's much easier to campaign against someone with a 10 or 12% approval rating. >> ifill: he said let's agree on what we agree on. why isn't that reasonable why won't that work? >> nobody wants to take these votes in an election year where they have to accomplish something. it's much easier to put their stamp on. the...
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romney charged the obama policies have failed. egypt's highest court ordered the islamist-dominated parliament dissolved. it also let a former mubarak-era prime minister stay in the presidential run-off. and on the "newshour", republican senator john mccain demanded stronger action against the syrian government. he said the obama administration's policy has been shameful. online, it's science thursday. hari sreenivasan has the details. >> sreenivasan: we look at the science of storytelling with author jonathan gottschall. his new book, "the storytelling animal," examines why telling stories is as natural to humans as breathing. patchwork nation looks at the new challenges facing the obama campaign to bring the college students, who supported him in 2008, on board this year. and we report on governor scott walker's meeting with reporters in washington today. find out what advice the wisconsin republican had for mitt romney. those stories are all on the rundown and there's much more on our website: newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruf
romney charged the obama policies have failed. egypt's highest court ordered the islamist-dominated parliament dissolved. it also let a former mubarak-era prime minister stay in the presidential run-off. and on the "newshour", republican senator john mccain demanded stronger action against the syrian government. he said the obama administration's policy has been shameful. online, it's science thursday. hari sreenivasan has the details. >> sreenivasan: we look at the science of...
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i think david is right, he does crystallize, but he makes the argument for obama better than obama does. he is a brill advocate, and i think he's a far better advocate when speaking for somebody else than he is on his own behalf. he is not eloquent but he is critizealizing. i did not hear a lot of crystallizing in tampa. maybe i missed it. i think crystallizing is in rare, rare supply this campaign season. >> ifill: we know what to listen tonight from both of you. and we'll be back with much more convention coverage, all that after the, news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: republicans today offered their own critical take on the democratic convention. in idell, iowa, vice presidential candidate paul ryan said tonight's main speaker former president bill clinton will try to shift attention from mr. obama's economic record. >> we're going to hear a lot of things in charlotte, but we're not going to hear a convincing argument that we're better off than we were four years ago. we're going to hear from president clinton tonight in charlotte. my guess is we'll get a great renditio
i think david is right, he does crystallize, but he makes the argument for obama better than obama does. he is a brill advocate, and i think he's a far better advocate when speaking for somebody else than he is on his own behalf. he is not eloquent but he is critizealizing. i did not hear a lot of crystallizing in tampa. maybe i missed it. i think crystallizing is in rare, rare supply this campaign season. >> ifill: we know what to listen tonight from both of you. and we'll be back with...
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on the "newshour" tonight, the spotlight is on president obama. it's his turn to make the case for a second term, after former president clinton set the stage for him last night. >> woodruff: we assess the president's record and his leadership style as commander in chief. >> ifill: we'll be joined by our floor reporter ray suarez and historians michael beschloss and richard norton smith. >> woodruff: and with us in the skybox again tonight for insight and analysis are mark shields and david brooks. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> they can be enlightening or engaging. conversations help us learn and grow. at wells fargo, we believe you can never underestimate the power of a conversation. it's this exchange of ideas that helps you move ahead with confidence. because an open dialogue is what open doors. wells fargo. together we'll go far. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science,
on the "newshour" tonight, the spotlight is on president obama. it's his turn to make the case for a second term, after former president clinton set the stage for him last night. >> woodruff: we assess the president's record and his leadership style as commander in chief. >> ifill: we'll be joined by our floor reporter ray suarez and historians michael beschloss and richard norton smith. >> woodruff: and with us in the skybox again tonight for insight and analysis...
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. >> sreenivasan: president obama was a staunch supporter of the bill. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has yet to take a stand on the issue. on wall street today, stocks rebounded slightly from last week's sell-off, but investor angst over the euro-zone still lingered. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 26 points to close at 12,127. the nasdaq rose 18 points to close at 2,778. the walt disney company today became the first major media corporation to ban junk food advertising. the plans will not be fully implemented until 2015. but by then, all food and beverage products that are advertised or promoted by disney will have to meet strict nutrition guidelines. many foods-- like prepackaged lunches, fruit drinks, candy and snack cakes-- won't make the cut. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, one out of five american children and adolescents is obese, putting them at risk for a host of health problems. a small dot passing in front of the sun this evening is actually the planet venus. stargazers around the
. >> sreenivasan: president obama was a staunch supporter of the bill. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has yet to take a stand on the issue. on wall street today, stocks rebounded slightly from last week's sell-off, but investor angst over the euro-zone still lingered. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 26 points to close at 12,127. the nasdaq rose 18 points to close at 2,778. the walt disney company today became the first major media corporation to ban junk...
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obama laid bare the agenda for a political season that hadn't yet arrived. in the primaries, former governor mitt romney said he fully supported the ryan plan, but he has since backed away from a complete endorsement. >> people become concerned. no changes for current retirees >> reporter: meanwhile, democrats across the country had seized on the ryan budget well before he was on the republican ticket. >> i think we have to remember that democrats were talking about paul ryan and paul ryan's budget months before governor romney even chose him to be his running mate, this was already an issue, it was already in ads, and something that was already part of the conversation at the congressional level, before paul ryan was named the v.p. running mate. >> reporter: here outside buffalo, ny, congresswoman kathy hochul is perhaps the clearest example of democrats' national strategy. hochul won a special election in 2011 in a republican district, running against the ryan plan and its changes to medicare. national strategists thought they had a winning issue. in the m
obama laid bare the agenda for a political season that hadn't yet arrived. in the primaries, former governor mitt romney said he fully supported the ryan plan, but he has since backed away from a complete endorsement. >> people become concerned. no changes for current retirees >> reporter: meanwhile, democrats across the country had seized on the ryan budget well before he was on the republican ticket. >> i think we have to remember that democrats were talking about paul ryan...
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and i think obama has continued extremly aggressively. he's kind of a ruthless guy polit clee and in foreign affairs. and i think he has done it pretty well. there are some clear doubts about drones and legitimate doubts. should a white house have the power to essentially assassinate people. and we as the government most vuller-- vul neverable to cyberterrorism because of how much we rely on computers, we are now on record of saying yes, we have suffered-- we are doing it to others. so there is double edge sword here. nonetheless i think the bottom line is that especially vis-a-vis iran these are pretty effective programs. if you think government can't do anything, they were -- the iranians are wondering what is going on. why are these things spinning weirdly out of control. they were firing people, they thought there was something wrong with the machinery. we had people in our intelligence agencies doing something pretty impressive i would think. >> i would just say that there are a number of people who have grave moral reservations abou
and i think obama has continued extremly aggressively. he's kind of a ruthless guy polit clee and in foreign affairs. and i think he has done it pretty well. there are some clear doubts about drones and legitimate doubts. should a white house have the power to essentially assassinate people. and we as the government most vuller-- vul neverable to cyberterrorism because of how much we rely on computers, we are now on record of saying yes, we have suffered-- we are doing it to others. so there is...
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care is delivered. >> woodruff: what about his point about the obama plan? >> let's talk about the $700 plus million that ryan did take out of his plan as well. those are reductions in the rate of growth, in payments to providers and to the private health insurance plans that some beneficiaries by to supplement medicare. but that growth, if you remember those came from and they've got part of the affordable care act, they came in agreements with the hospital industry who agreed that they could accept the cuts of that nature. and evidence tells us that where there is pressure to reduce costs in terms of what's paid to the hospital not what's given to people to shop that there are efficiencies that can be taken. and with those cuts what is not acknowledged in this debate is medicare as a result of the affordable care act is already growing at an extraordinarily slow or beneficiary rate. >> woodruff: so what about this idea that this money would come from hospitals? they've agreed from-to-do it. they're going to work on finding sensible cuts. >> well, apparentl
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a different theology. >> brown: yesterday on abc's this week, obama campaign strategist robert gibdz said the comments went too far. >> i can't help but think that those remarks are well over the line. it's wrong. it's destructive. it makes it virtually impossible to solve the problems that we all face together as americans. >> he's the man of the hour in republican politics. >> brown: but that same day on cbs's "face the nation," santorum defended his remarks. >> i wasn't suggesting the president is not a christian. i accept the fact that the president is a christian. i just said that when you have a world view that elevates the earth above man and says that we can't take those resources because we're going to harm the earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven. >> brown: santorum's republican opponents continued to campaign in crucial super tuesday states. in ohio today former massachusetts governor mitt romney insisted he's the only candidate capable of beating president obama in november. >> i have had the experience of leading. i have led four different ente
a different theology. >> brown: yesterday on abc's this week, obama campaign strategist robert gibdz said the comments went too far. >> i can't help but think that those remarks are well over the line. it's wrong. it's destructive. it makes it virtually impossible to solve the problems that we all face together as americans. >> he's the man of the hour in republican politics. >> brown: but that same day on cbs's "face the nation," santorum defended his remarks....
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president obama -- president obama understands women. he trusts women and on every single issue that matters to us, he stands with women. [cheers and applause] president obama ensured that women's preventative care including birth control,, too will be covered by all health care plans with no copay no matter where we work. [cheers and applause] and because of president obama soon women won't be denied insurance coverage because we've had breast cancer or survived sexual assault. and we're no longer going to pay more than men for the exact same health insurance. [cheers and applause] thanks to president obama being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition in america [cheers and applause] that's right. that's right. we know -- back in texas -- back in texas -- yay texas -- back in texas we say that we dance with them that brung ya. okay? president obama brought women to this dance and we're staying with him all the way to november. [cheers and applause] 24 years ago, my mother, former texas governor ann richards spoke to this conventio
president obama -- president obama understands women. he trusts women and on every single issue that matters to us, he stands with women. [cheers and applause] president obama ensured that women's preventative care including birth control,, too will be covered by all health care plans with no copay no matter where we work. [cheers and applause] and because of president obama soon women won't be denied insurance coverage because we've had breast cancer or survived sexual assault. and we're no...
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presidents from truman to obama, save one. find out who is missing in a special diamond jubilee slide show on our website. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: demonstrators protested in cairo's tahrir square, three days after former egyptian president mubarak was sentenced to life in prison rebels fighting the regime of syrian president bashar assad banded together in a new coalition. and, voters in wisconsin prepared to go to the polls tomorrow in an effort to recall republican governor scott walker. online, we're watching wisconsin. kwame holman explains >> holman: jeff joined gwen and political editor christina bellantoni to talk about the energy and the money flowing into the state. today's political checklist is on our "politics" page. plus, the story of a diary and letters penned by a north vietnamese and an american soldier, both killed in the war. defense secretary leon panetta and his counterpart in hanoi exchanged the very personal documents today. find photos and the story behind the hand-overs, faci
presidents from truman to obama, save one. find out who is missing in a special diamond jubilee slide show on our website. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: demonstrators protested in cairo's tahrir square, three days after former egyptian president mubarak was sentenced to life in prison rebels fighting the regime of syrian president bashar assad banded together in a new coalition. and, voters in wisconsin prepared to go to the polls tomorrow in an effort to recall...
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thank you, president obama. president obama did all this and much, much more in spite of a republican party that said it's number one goal wasn't to solve any of these problems. they said the number one goal was to stop barack obama. think about this, ladies and gentlemen, in the middle of one of greatest crisis in american history they sat on their hands and play politics. look, i was raised a republican, but i don't recognize a once proud party hijacked by extremists who driven it off the flat ernl they pretend we're living on. they spent eight years creating a colossal mess, and the last four doing almost nothing except, of course, trying to blame it on president obama. hey, pyromantic -- pyromaniacs shouldn't blame the firefighters. now mitt romney wants to go back to the bad old days that got us into this mess. he would give up everything that creates opportunity for the middle class just to pay for the massive tax breaks for those who are already very, very comfortable. romney's message is clear: in tough
thank you, president obama. president obama did all this and much, much more in spite of a republican party that said it's number one goal wasn't to solve any of these problems. they said the number one goal was to stop barack obama. think about this, ladies and gentlemen, in the middle of one of greatest crisis in american history they sat on their hands and play politics. look, i was raised a republican, but i don't recognize a once proud party hijacked by extremists who driven it off the...
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new hampshire has apparently gone obama. wisconsin has gone obama. that suggests so far it's trending in a democratic night. >> woodruff: michigan and so forth. >> it's... new hampshire, debby wasserman shultz with ray said that annie custer had won in her second try for the congressional district against a moderate republican. congratulations if she has, another democrat in the house. but charlie bass was sort of the quintessential moderate new england republican. the kind of guy that worked across the aisle. talk about a vanishing species just like conservative and moderate democrats. >> ifill: dick lugar who is a person who richard murdoch who was defeated tonight is the person he beat in the primary. the last of a breed of moderate republicans in the senate and joe donley who was given no chance of being able... the democratic congressman, of being able to beat the guy who beat lugar is nominee tonight. >> there's a long trend. the senator from minnesota, democrat, won comfortably tonight. she stays in the senate with al franken. those two seats
new hampshire has apparently gone obama. wisconsin has gone obama. that suggests so far it's trending in a democratic night. >> woodruff: michigan and so forth. >> it's... new hampshire, debby wasserman shultz with ray said that annie custer had won in her second try for the congressional district against a moderate republican. congratulations if she has, another democrat in the house. but charlie bass was sort of the quintessential moderate new england republican. the kind of guy...